Week 12 Assignment: Individual Reflection on Group Project

Group Project Reflection 2

Learning Objectives:

• Experience working in a group, paying attention to group dynamics, working to establish a group culture of collaboration, sharing work, meeting facilitation, interest in one another’s participation, generative disagreements, and consensus-building.
• Understand what is required to build shared messaging, to develop coalitions, to plan attention-getting actions, and to apply pressure in order to win campaign goals.
• Write effective, understandable campaign messaging in multiple forms (op-eds, memes, flyers, etc.).
• Understand how police and prison abolition efforts are undertaken.
• Understand how law and law enforcement systems are changed through grassroots organizing.

For this assignment, write a 300-word reflection  on how the campaign is going, with a focus on group dynamics and collaboration. This is due on November 10.  This reflection should consider questions such as:

• How am I and how have I been participating in the group? How do I feel when I participate? How do I feel after? How would I like to feel when I participate?
• Have I taken on certain roles like "boss," "silent one," "push over," "care taker," "consensus builder," "conflict facilitator," or other roles? Am I in any familiar roles, that I have perhaps played in other groups I am in?
• What lessons am I learning about what participating in groups is like for me? Are there skills for group participating that I'd like to sharpen or develop further? Check out this chart about leadership qualities Links to an external site. to stimulate your thinking about what skills and capacities you might want to be developing.
• How have I learned about group decision-making ? 
• How have I learned about meeting facilitation ?